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Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:39 pm

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:42 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 1:48 pm Just a side note about these sentences DOJ is seeking and how they compare to other sentences DOJ has recently sought.

I understand his point but it's apples and oranges to me. Different times, different administrations, different priorities, and they weren't trying hundreds of related cases at the same time.

If they gave all the insurrectionists 20 years (or even 10, or 5) where would they put them all? And aren't most of the charges misdemeanors anyway?

Dry Tortuga, just dump 'em out there and let 'em fill out the place like "Escape from New York" No walls, no rules, no escape.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:42 pmAnd aren't most of the charges misdemeanors anyway?

Court has unsealed yet another US Capitol breach case involving a defendant from Chicago

Justice Dept court filing says phone data & a neighbor linked Kimberly DiFrancesco to Capitiol on Jan 6

Former Proud Boy Joshua Pruitt now plans to take a plea tomorrow, per court docket.

New Jan. 6 case unsealed against Trudy Castle and Kimberly DiFrancesco:

Gregg wrote:Sorry, not sorry. I live a mile down the road from the real Picket's Charge and it reminds me what happens when you try to have some "legitimate political discourse".

Navarro Indicted as Justice Dept. Opts Not to Charge Meadows and Scavino

The House had recommended contempt charges against all three Trump White House aides over their stonewalling of its Jan. 6 inquiry.

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Peter Navarro, a White House adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, even as the Justice Department declined to charge Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino Jr., two other top officials who have also refused to cooperate.

The indictment against Mr. Navarro, handed up in Federal District Court in Washington, marked the first time that an official who served in Mr. Trump’s White House during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged in connection with the investigation into the attack.

Prosecutors charged Mr. Navarro, 72, with what amounted to a misdemeanor process crime for having failed to appear for a deposition or provide documents to congressional investigators in response to a subpoena issued by the House committee on Feb. 9. The indictment includes two counts of criminal contempt of Congress that each carry a maximum sentence of a year in prison, as well as a fine of up to $100,000.

The Justice Department has declined to take similar steps against Mr. Meadows, Mr. Trump’s final chief of staff, and Mr. Scavino, the deputy chief of staff, according to people familiar with prosecutors’ decision and a letter reviewed by The New York Times informing the top House counsel of it.

“Based on the individual facts and circumstances of their alleged contempt, my office will not be initiating prosecutions for criminal contempt as requested in the referral against Messrs. Meadows and Scavino,” Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to Douglas N. Letter, the general counsel of the House, on Friday. “My office’s review of each of the contempt referrals arising from the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation is complete.”

Both Mr. Meadows and Mr. Scavino — who were deeply involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election — engaged in weeks of negotiations with the committee’s lawyers, and Mr. Meadows turned over more than 9,000 documents to the panel, before the House voted to charge them with contempt.

By contrast, Mr. Navarro and his ally Stephen K. Bannon, who has also been charged with contempt, fought the committee’s subpoenas from Day 1 and never entered into negotiations.

Asked for comment, Mr. Meadows’s lawyer, George J. Terwilliger III, said, “The result speaks for itself.”

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for Mr. Scavino declined to comment.

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much ado wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:16 pm Could it be that DoJ is not prosecuting because Meadows is cooperating? Just asking...

Justice Dept files motion to "preclude claim of self-defense" in Jan 6 case of Trump appointee Federico Klein:

"Available facts..show the defendant was the initial aggressor, attacking a police line that had only been established because the police had been forced to fall back"

Kendra wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:06 pm https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/stat ... 8096377856

Justice Dept files motion to "preclude claim of self-defense" in Jan 6 case of Trump appointee Federico Klein:

"Available facts..show the defendant was the initial aggressor, attacking a police line that had only been established because the police had been forced to fall back"

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:08 am

much ado wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:16 pm Could it be that DoJ is not prosecuting because Meadows is cooperating? Just asking...

To confirm: your supposition is that Meadows (and maybe Scavino) are refusing to participate with the process before Congress, but are cooperating privately (and with more discretion, let's be fair) with DoJ?

much ado wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:34 pmHas DoJ given an explicit reason for not prosecuting?

Judge rules Justice Dept can admit evidence at trial in high-level Capitol riot case of Kyle Fitzimons:

Records of 4 calls made to two Congressional offices in Dec 2020 in which he referenced election fraud and indicated his belief that President Biden was not lawfully elected"

In court filing today, Justice Dept says Jan 6 defendant Rachel Powell made social media post in 2020 about "surveillance of a public official’s home & questioned how to confirm, without entering a courthouse to seek records, that she had the official’s correct address"

Prosecutors add:

"In 2021, (Powell) shared custody of six minor children with her ex-husband. When the defendant left for Washington, D.C. to attend the events of January 6, 2021, she left her minor children at home, unattended"

Sentencing at 2pm in Jan 6 case of medical clinic staffer Jody Tagaris of Florida. US Justice Dept will seek 30 days in jail for Tagaris. They've shown judge some photos of Tagaris inside a private Senate meeting room.. seated at conference table

If you want to get a taste of what jurors in Jan. 6 cases have seen ahead of the House committee hearings on Thursday, here’s a 22-minute video compilation of CCTV footage from the U.S. Capitol:

Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews wrote: In court filing today, Justice Dept says Jan 6 defendant Rachel Powell made social media post in 2020 about "surveillance of a public official’s home & questioned how to confirm, without entering a courthouse to seek records, that she had the official’s correct address"

Prosecutors add:

"In 2021, (Powell) shared custody of six minor children with her ex-husband. When the defendant left for Washington, D.C. to attend the events of January 6, 2021, she left her minor children at home, unattended"

Prosecutors say in Oct 2020 Powell posted:

"I agree with the possibility of civil war happening. I can see that too. Unfortunately, the only way this is probably capable of being fixed is bloodshed because I’m not so sure our government can be fixed the political way anymore.."

Powell is seeking looser pretrial release conditions.

Justice Dept is asking court NOT to loosen the conditions.

Powell has pleaded NOT GUILTY. Next court hearing is set for July